JLPT N1 · 7 strokes
Kanji 坑: "pit, hole"
The kanji 坑 means "pit, hole". It is written with 7 strokes and belongs to JLPT level N1, read コウ in on'yomi.
Stroke order
Strokes are written in the order of the numbers. The order is not decorative: it is what gives the character its balance, and it is also how handwriting search works in Japanese dictionaries.
Readings
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
コウ
Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading)
no recorded reading
In a kun'yomi reading, the dot separates the kanji from its okurigana: かた.る is read かたる and written 語る. A hyphen marks a bound position, like -び in 日.
At a glance
| Meaning | pit, hole |
|---|---|
| Strokes | 7 |
| JLPT level | N1 |
| Taught in Japan | secondary school |
| Frequency rank | 2040 of 2,501 |
Common words with 坑
The most frequent words using this kanji, most common first, with furigana readings. Click one to open it in the reader.
- 坑道tunnel; (mining) gallery; level; shaft
- 坑pit (esp. of a mine)
- 廃坑closure of a mine; abandoned mine; disused mine
- 坑夫miner
- 坑夫The Miner (1908 novel by Natsume Sōseki)
- 坑内within a pit or (mine) shaft
- 坑口pithead; minehead
- 立坑shaft (e.g. in a mine); pit
- 横坑adit
- 入坑entrance into drift or pit
- 鉱坑shaft; mine; pit
- 焚書坑儒burning books on the Chinese classics and burying Confucian scholars alive (Qin dynasty thought suppression campaign)
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